Passing along from Center for Food
Safety
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) will
phase out the use of genetically engineered (GE) crops to feed
wildlife and ban neonicotinoid insecticides from all wildlife refuges
nationwide by January 2016.
The FWS decision follows a longstanding
grassroots, legal, and policy campaign by Center for Food Safety (CFS)
and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) to end
the harmful practices.
From 2005-2014, CFS and PEER filed five
lawsuits, two legal petitions, and countless administrative
actions.
FWS is the first federal agency to restrict
the use of GE crops and neonicotinoids in farming in the
U.S.
* CFS, PEER, Beyond Pesticides, and Sierra
Club are currently litigating FWS's allowance of industrial
agriculture practices on Midwest Wildlife Refuges.
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